Set Project: Finishing illustration - Characters

Yesterday, I have researched a few interesting pictures from the Native American's Ledger art. I suggested the colours and unique shapes of horses for instance.

I made another mood board on Milanote. This time, with only six pictures due to the full storage on my account. Either way, it helped me with determinate the general colours of the clothes and skin tones.

I repeated the same process with the colour wheel and I only needed to refill characters.

Firstly, I made a new group with layers for the sketches. I made them straight on the ready background. This allowed me to compare the overall look with the environment. I stopped on the last part of the Leporello with the horse. Considering perspective, it has the most difficult shape to draw. After a few failed attempts, I found the perfect picture on the web. I just took a screenshot and pasted it with low opacity. I used this only as a suggestion to the shape. Finally, I have inspired by the Ledger drawings.

Here I shared the previous parts with sketches. The first is with Satho po, as a child and the next one is with the celebration aspect of his maturity.

I approached to create a character using a pen. But it was an ill-conceived effort. I could not refill another few layers of the clothes. So, I completely changed the conception and began a competent digital painting.

I drew the basic human body shape, separating colours of the clothes from the start.

Above you can see the inspiration taken from the Native's occurrence. 

The same process I repeated at the next station. The key, I found in applying shadows and smaller size brushes.

It was a pleasant workflow, especially with the fire. Still, I think is overlapping with the person on the front. Unfortunately, I did not have time to find a solution for that.

In the last section, I considered the Satho po's child. I decided to make a girl. I established, that she will be wearing her father's cover and as a ''promise'' will take care of the horse.

It was a time consuming development of the shadows and horse's legs. I blured it into a darker parts and it helps.

I felt that the tepee and the child are the tedious motifs. Therefore, I added the carpet inspired by the Native tribe.

At the final touches I establish the grass with the charcoal effect and the main theme - purple haze.

Not forgetting about the important solitude aspect of the mountain. Satho po has connected to the haze at the end of the story.

Here are just a couple of steps with the tepee pattern and fulfilling the childhood with the butterfly.